The very air we breathe. Now under EU jurisdiction.

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Reliable because you can rely on them not to completely screw it up. We have no prior experience of UKIP as of yet so it's best to wait for a better situation before giving them the helm.

Not to completely screw it up? you don't think a £7.9tn debt is a total screw up? it's more than a screw up, its criminal.

[AgnesIO]

Not to completely screw it up? you don't think a £7.9tn debt is a total screw up? it's more than a screw up, its criminal.

Out of interest, when did we originally go in debt?

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Out of interest, when did we originally go in debt?

Well the taxpayers alliance puts the debt at this;

Now in reality I think most of the time we have been in debt, but that adds to the point - think of the wasted money we spend on interest payments that, if we had a surplus we could spend on education, roads, hospitals and so on.

[Chippiewill]

Not to completely screw it up? you don't think a £7.9tn debt is a total screw up? it's more than a screw up, its criminal.

It could be a whole lot worse and I'd like to point out that most of that was to prevent the recession from being so bad.

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It could be a whole lot worse and I'd like to point out that most of that was to prevent the recession from being so bad.

Well thats nonsense because you do not spend to get out of debt, and also as the chart shows the idea that the debt arose from the recession is a myth - government has been overspending for a very very long time and one day this debt will have to be paid back.

We spend more on debt interest every year than we do on the entire education budget, just to service our debts.